Consciousness Talks
Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debate by philosophers, theologians, and all of science. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness. In some explanations, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of mind. In the past, it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, it often includes any kind of cognition, experience, feeling or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness, or self-awareness either continuously changing or not. The disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises a curiosity about whether the right questions are being asked.
Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: ordered distinction between self and environment, simple wakefulness, one's sense of selfhood or soul explored by "looking within"; being a metaphorical "stream" of contents, or being a mental state, mental event or mental process of the brain.
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Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2Serial: SR-00037 Third Lotus Sutra Series [The recording starts with Suzuki reading from: Saddharma Pundarika or The... Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness,... |
Oct 23 1969 Series 3, Talk 2 Tassajara |
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Twelve Links of CausationSerial: SR-00135 Twelve Links Of Causation English Japanese Sanskrit... Consciousness, Suffering, causation, Discrimination, Emptiness, Fasting, Passions,... |
Aug 23 1969 Tassajara |
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June 10th, 1969, Serial No. 00015 Consciousness, Big Mind, Obstacles, Emotions, New Year, Samadhi, Suffering, Ego, Hate... |
Jun 10 1969 |
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February 25th, 1969, Serial No. 00009 Attachment, causation, realization, Consciousness, Breath, Happiness, Community,... |
Feb 25 1969 |
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February 18th, 1969, Serial No. 00008 causation, Suffering, Buddha Mind, Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Buddha Nature,... |
Feb 18 1969 |
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February 1969 talk, Serial No. 00006 Discrimination, realization, Anger, training, Suffering, Consciousness, Pain... |
Feb 1969 |
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Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-15Serial: SR-00006 Fall, 1968 Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Conversation, Meditation, Demons, American, First... |
Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 15 Tassajara |
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OLD - In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudō-yōjin-shūSerial: SR-00089 Reel was wrongly dated - transcript matches 66-12-17-A Discussion of fascicle Shobogeno Gakudo Yojinshu. Way-seeking mind and responding to encountering the... Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Sixth Patriarch, training, Birth-and-Death, Instruction,... |
Dec 17 1966 A Sokoji |
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OLD - The Second Paragraph of the Genjo KoanSerial: SR-00196 Monday, August 15, 1966 Sesshin, Genjokoan, Dogen, Consciousness, Attachment, Instruction, Doubt, reality,... |
Aug 15 1966 A Sokoji |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00367 Intuition, Impermanence, Intention, Passions, Compassion, Consciousness, American,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00370 Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Emotions, Attachment, Constancy, Demons,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00376 Consciousness, Suffering, Impermanence, Ego, Letting Go, confusion, Right Speech,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00388 Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Letting Go, Attachment, Echo, Emotions,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00389 Suffering, Anger, Attachment, Consciousness, Balance, Liberation, Building,... |
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Seminar on TaoismSerial: SR-00275-A Alan Watts on Taoism, session 1 Forms, Silence, Echo, Obstacles, Describe, Lay, Bell, Continuous, Consciousness,... |
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Seminar on TaoismSerial: SR-00275-B Alan Watts talk - session 2 Consciousness, Pain, heart, Forms, Hate, zen, Zoom, Obstacles, Ego, Lay |
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Unknown year, June talk, Serial 00373 Continuous, Intention, Consciousness, Impermanence, Intuition, Right Speech, Buddha... |
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